Thursday 7 August 2008
Mystik Journeymen
Artist: Mystik Journeymen
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Black Sands ov Eternia
Year: 1999
Tracks: 23
Founders of the East Oakland resistance collective Living Legends, PSC and BFAP formed as Mystik Journeymen in 1992. Southern Californian PSC hooked up with BFAP in Oakland spell visiting a girlfriend, and by and by fey to conjoin the mathematical group (at the clock time, it included a few other rappers wHO afterward drifted out). The twin became local legends by 1994, throwing parties (Underground Surivivors) and marketing mixtapes. One year later, the Grouch began contributive and, after striking the road doing shows as far away as Europe, Mystik Journeymen formed the Living Legends turn party with new recruits including 3 Melancholy Gypsys (aka Murs, Eligh, and Scarub), Moonrocks (aka Bicasso and Nebulus), Aesop, and Arata. The duo's pronounce, LLCrew, had begun cathartic records by 1995, and Mystik Journeymen released a parade of LPs during the next few days, highlighted by 1995's 4001: The Stolen Legacy and 1996's Pressed 4 Time. (They'd also expanded their touring base to include the Far East and Australia.) By 1999, the work party had affected from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and with The Black Sands ov Eternia, began releasing records through and through Outhouse/Revenge. In 2002 Mystik Journeymen eventually released a coup d'etat d'oeil of their justly praised concert designate with the LP Living Legends: Live, and their ninth album, Conjuring trick, followed later that year.